Find where python is installed (if it isn't default dir)

Question

Python is on my machine, I just don\'t know where, if I type python in terminal it will open Python 2.6.4, this isn\'t in it\'s default directory, there surely is a way of f

Answer 1

For Windows Users:

If the python command is not in your $PATH environment var.

Open PowerShell and run these commands to find the folder

cd \
ls *ython* -Recurse -Directory

That should tell you where python is installed

Answer 2

1. First search for PYTHON IDLE from search bar

2. Open the IDLE and use below commands.

   import sys print(sys.path)

3. It will give you the path where the python.exe is installed. For eg: C:\Users\\...\python.exe

4. Add the same path to system environment variable.

Answer 3

Have a look at sys.path:

>>> import sys
>>> print(sys.path)

Answer 4

sys has some useful stuff:

$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:13:38) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.executable
'c:\\Python26\\python.exe'
>>> sys.exec_prefix
'c:\\Python26'
>>>
>>> print '\n'.join(sys.path)

c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg
c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\nose-1.0.0-py2.6.egg
C:\Windows\system32\python26.zip
c:\Python26\DLLs
c:\Python26\lib
c:\Python26\lib\plat-win
c:\Python26\lib\lib-tk
c:\Python26
c:\Python26\lib\site-packages
c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\win32
c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\win32\lib
c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\Pythonwin
c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode

Answer 5

On windows running where python should work.